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We were having a lot of "Heartbeat Alerts" in our SCOM environment, now "Heartbeat" in a SCOM environment for those of you who might not be familiar with SCOM is a packet of data sent from the agent to the management server on a regular basis, basic…

Ever notice how you can't use a new drive in Windows without having Windows assigning a Disk Signature? Ever have a signature collision problem (especially with Virtual Machines?) This article is intended to help you understand what's going on and…

The viewer will learn how to create a normally distributed random variable in Excel, use a normal distribution to simulate the return on an investment over a period of years, Create a Monte Carlo simulation using a normal random variable, and calcul…

The viewer will learn how to create two correlated normally distributed random variables in Excel, use a normal distribution to simulate the return on different levels of investment in each of the two funds over a period of ten years, and, create a …